Article 20 Qualifications to be held by legal representatives

(1)

A person may only—

(a)

represent the commanding officer or, as the case may be, the person to whom the proceedings relate, at a hearing;

(b)

be appointed under rule 19(2) as a legal adviser,

if he is appropriately qualified.

(2)

For the purposes of paragraph (1), a person is appropriately qualified if—

(a)

he is a person who has a general qualification within the meaning of section 71 of the Courts and Legal Services Act 1990^f1;

(b)

he is an advocate or a solicitor in Scotland;

(c)

he is a member of the Bar of Northern Ireland or a solicitor of the Supreme Court of Northern Ireland;

(d)

he is a person who has in any Commonwealth country or any colony rights and duties similar to those of a barrister or solicitor in England and Wales, and is subject to punishment or disability for breach of professional rules.

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Footnotes

f1: 1990 c. 41; subsection (6) of section 71 was substituted, and subsections (7) and (8) were repealed, by the Access to Justice Act 1999 (c. 22).